Beardsley v. State Employes' Retirement Board

LEADBETTER, Judge.

Petitioners, thirty-nine present and former senior management employees of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), appeal from the order of the State Employes’ Retirement Board (Board) which determined that payments made pursuant to PHEAA’s Executive Marketing Incentive Program (EMIP) were not compensation under the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Code (Code).1 The questions presented are: (1) whether payments, which PHEAA began making to its senior management employees in 1987 pursuant to EMIP, are covered compensation under the Code; (2)…